Cleanliness in Malayalam

Cleanliness is ശുചിത്വം (shuchithwam), covering hygiene as well as cleanness, and it is the word on public health campaigns in Kerala. Read it shu-chi-thwam. It works for a tidy house and for clean hands alike.

Most common translation

ശുചിത്വം (shuchithwam)

Purity, hygiene, cleanliness, whiteness.

അടുക്കളയിൽ ശുചിത്വം വളരെ പ്രധാനമാണ്.

adukkalayil shuchithwam valare pradhaanamaanu.

Cleanliness is very important in the kitchen.

All Malayalam words for “cleanliness”

നൈര്‍മ്മല്യം (nairmmalyam) is purity in a more abstract or moral sense, closer to spotlessness of character than to washing.

Common questions

How do you say cleanliness in Malayalam?

Cleanliness is ശുചിത്വം (shuchithwam).

Which word means purity?

നൈര്‍മ്മല്യം (nairmmalyam), purity or cleanliness.